Kindle Books at the Athenæum

The Boston Athenæum has six Kindles available for members to check out for two-week periods. Each comes preloaded according to six subjects: biography, fiction, history, mystery, travel, and director’s choice. Please scroll down to see the complete list. You will also find these books when you are searching in Athena, the online catalog.

Kindle Biography

  • Team of rivals : the political genius of Abraham Lincoln / Doris Kearns Goodwin
  •  No ordinary time : Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt : the home front in World War II / Doris Kearns Goodwin
  •  Brave companions : portraits in history / David McCullough
  •  Infidel / Ayaan Hirsi Ali
  • The inner voice : the making of a singer / Renée Fleming
  •  The tycoons : how Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J.P. Morgan invented the American supereconomy / Charles R. Morris
  •  Mark Twain : a life / Ron Powers
  • The world is what it is : the authorized biography of V.S. Naipaul / Patrick French
  •  Marie Antoinette : the journey / Antonia Fraser
  •  Gabriel García Márquez : a life / Gerald Martin

Kindle Director's Choice

  •  Complete novels / Jane Austen
  • Words in air : the complete correspondence between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell / edited by Thomas Travisano, with Saskia Hamilton
  •  The Canterbury tales / Geoffrey Chaucer
  •  My life in France / Julia Child with Alex Prud’homme
  •  Middlemarch / George Eliot
  •  This side of paradise / F. Scott Fitgerald
  •  A portrait of the artist as a young man / James Joyce
  •  A great and glorious game : baseball writings of A. Bartlett Giamatti / collected by Kenneth S. Robson
  •  Palliser Novels / by Anthony Trollope
  •  Works of Edith Wharton (Kindle edition)
  •  Works of William Butler Yeats (Kindle edition)
  •  The complete works of William Shakespeare
  •  The scarecrow / Michael Connelly
  •  That old Cape magic / Richard Russo
  •  History of Friedrich II of Prussia, called Frederick the Great / Thomas Carlyle
  •  The possessed : adventures with Russian books and the people who read them / Elif Batuman
  • Albion's seed : four British folkways in America / by David Hackett Fischer
  •  1776 / David McCullough
  •  Fordlandia : the rise and fall of Henry Ford's forgotten jungle city / Greg Grandin
  •  The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks / Rebecca Skloot
  •  Major Pettigrew's last stand : a novel / Helen Simonson
  •  The infinities / John Banville
  •  Strength in what remains / Tracy Kidder
  •  The forever war / Dexter Filkins
  •  The bird artist / Howard Norman

Kindle Fiction

  • To the lighthouse / Virginia Woolf
  •  The great Gatsby / F. Scott Fitzgerald
  •  Tess of the d'Ubervilles / Thomas Hardy
  •  Anna Karenina : a novel in eight parts / Leo Tolstoy ; translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
  •  Alfred and Emily / Doris Lessing
  •  The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society / Mary Ann Shaffer
  •  The great fire / Shirley Hazzard
  •  American pastoral / Philip Roth
  •  Unaccustomed earth / Jhumpa Lahiri
  •  Olive Kitteridge / Elizabeth Strout
  •  Imperium : a novel of ancient Rome / Robert Harris
  •  Works of P.G. Wodehouse
  •  My father's tears / John Updike
  •  Dead souls / Nikolay Gogol ; translated with an introduction and notes by Robert A. Maguire
  •  The Bostonians / Henry James
  •  The museum of innocence / Orhan Pamuk ; translated from the Turkish by Maureen Freely
  •  The thing around your neck / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  •  Too much happiness : stories / Alice Munro
  •  Wolf Hall : a novel / Hilary Mantel
  •  The nice and the good / Iris Murdoch.

Kindle History

  • Blind into Baghdad : America's war in Iraq / James Fallows
  •  The conquerors : Roosevelt, Truman, and the destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1941-1945 / Michael Beschloss
  •  What hath God wrought : the transformation of America, 1815-1848 / Daniel Walker Howe
  •  Three cups of tea : one man's mission to promote peace, one school at a time / Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
  •  Mayflower : a story of courage, community, and war / Nathaniel Philbrick
  •  Presidential courage : brave leaders and how they changed America, 1789-1989 / Michael Beschloss
  •  Washington's crossing / David Hackett Fischer
  • The Hemingses of Monticello : an American family / Annette Gordon-Reed
  •  Founding brothers : the revolutionary generation / by Joseph J. Ellis
  •  A summer of hummingbirds : love, art, and scandal in the intersecting worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade / Christopher Benfey

Kindle Mystery

  • Tea time for the traditionally built / Alexander McCall Smith
  •  Rough weather / Robert B. Parker
  •  The girl with the dragon tattoo / Stieg Larsson ; translated from the Swedish by Reg Keeland
  •  Get real / Donald E. Westlake
  •  Death on the Nile / Agatha Christie
  •  A test of wills / Charles Todd
  •  Road dogs / Elmore Leonard
  •  Folly du jour / Barbara Cleverly
  •  August heat / Andrea Camilleri ; translated by Stephen Sartarelli
  •  About face / Donna Leon

Kindle Travel

  • Way of Herodotus : travels with the man who invented history / Justin Marozzi
    Trieste and the meaning of nowhere / Jan Morris
  •  Paris to the moon / Adam Gopnik
  •  Roads to Quoz : an American mosey / William Least Heat-Moon
  •  Sun after dark : flights into the foreign / Pico Iyer
  •  The open road : the global journey of the fourteenth Dalai Lama / Pico Iyer
  •  Travels with Charley : in search of America / John Steinbeck
  •  Roughing it / Mark Twain
  •  The innocents abroad / Mark Twain
  •  In a sunburned country / Bill Bryson
  •  The sweet life in Paris: delicious adventures in the world's most glorious - and perplexing - city / David Lebovitz
  • A course called Ireland : a long walk in search of a country, a pint, and the next tee / Tom Coyne
  •  Provence A-Z / Peter Mayle
  •  Waiting on a train : the embattled future of passenger rail service / James McCommons
  •  Voyage of the Beagle / Charles Darwin
  •  The travels of Marco Polo / edited and with an introduction by Milton Rugoff
  •  The art of travel / Alain de Botton
  •  Assassination vacation / Sarah Vowell
  •  Works of John Muir
  •  Leaving Microsoft to change the world : an entrepreneur's odyssey to educate the world's children / John WoodKindle Fiction